Potato-feeding mechanism.



PATENTS!) JULY 10, 1906.

I. J. KAAR. POTATO FEEDING MEUHANISM APPLIUATION PILIQD JAHSG. 1903.

I? ESSES I endless Isprocket ehe in' 5" w eh letter drop theireontent's linto eta etionlwiths hegper having a volley therein no chain? at re UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

No. seese.

Specification of letters Patent.

Petented July 10, 1906.

Agplluetion lllsd January 39,1995, Serial Ho. 298,689.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that 1 IRA JAMES KAAR, a resident of Hevelock m the county of Lancaster and State ,of eertein new and useful Improvements in Rstats-Feed deelsre the ollowin exact description of will enable others it spperteins to the invention, such es 'lled in the art to which is and use the some.

My invention reel-es to improvements after described, ondpointed not inthe'eleims.

In the eccom snying dre' s; Figure 1 is a view in side'e evationoffmy 1m 'roved attachment; Fi 2fis a "Boiled Fig. 3 is an en erg'ed* eteil View}? the boot and cooperating me I.

1 represents a, hoppefsbox: sad at an angle approximately forty five agrees End supported upon and tovided at opposite ends'n ith 7 ticket-whee 3f upper sprooket wheel upon a, shaft i 'sider myse carrying ep'ulle 4' to ivhieh motionis i; mitted by a'd rix ingrjifilley 5 r'eonnooted therewith by 1: 1368 sti-a'por" has so es asses 'eventhe SPI'OCkBt WhEGIS 3, and the ower' sprocketwheel isprovided'with a ehein-ti htener see adjust the chain and take up also On the gular intervolsepert are baskets 9; having open fronts; and between the buck: ets curved deflectors 10 are secured on the v chain for a.- purpose which will hereinefter sp- .-f4s

The hopper 1 is provided with inclined pertition-pletes I1, forminge valley three h which the chain w: and inch; letes 3 are located near the uppetiend e valley to dlreet superfluous petite-seed book there- ;n. inclined plates, 13' loeeted some distance fromthe e per 6 pithe hope per, so as to provide amp e. s prthe oestufiasldeof all'but' the pots e8; the on s,

ebraske, have invented 1 Mechanism; and i do hereby to be a fall, clear, and

14, by means of which the potatoes are Lu.- reeted to the ground in furrow made by runner i'5.' A seedrcoverer 16 is preferably provided for scraping the earth over the potstoes Disks 1?, located et an angle, are dis osed in front of the runners 15 to open the ow. A curtain 22 isl oested at the lower end of hop er 1 and is pushed out of the way by the uckets in entering the lower end of the valley and falls back to prevent escape of potato-seed; As the buckets move along the valley they will necessarily move quite e number of otetoes besides those in the book -ets' but w en the buckets pass out of the valley the superfluous potetoes' will be de- Qflected to both sides by deflectors 10 and find their way back to the valley, end only thepotetoes 1n the buckets will be dropped the place of the feeding mechanism shown in the patent, and my 1m rovements are espeoieily desi ed to fit t 's double lister and operete as e onble otatof lasting lister. I A, great many s 'ght o enges might be made to the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from mfmvention, and hence I do not restrict myse f to the recise details set forth but conat liberty to make such sliggl changes and alterations es fairly fell wit the spirit and scope elf-1:; invention.

Having fully describ my invention,whst I eleim as new, and desire to secure by Letters letent ie- 1. In a. feeding mechanism, the combination with a hopper having a valley in its botgem, and an endless conveyor movable through said vvalley, of transverse deflectors in sai hopper proieeting laterally from the Volley therein.

feeding mechanisms will be employed to take and an endless convcyer movable through said valley, of a flexible apron at the inlet end of said valley.

4. In a potato-feeding mechanism for planters, the combination of a hoipcr, a chain movable t on h the hop er; buckets at intervals on t 1e chain, and efiectors on the chain between the buckets 5. In a potato-feeding mechanism for planters, the combination of a ho per, a chain movable through the hop er, iiuckets at intervals on the chain, flllt curved or rounded deflector-blocks on the chain occup ing the space between the buckets to throw' a 1 potatoes to the sides that are not taken by the buckets. 6. In a potato -feeding mechanism for planters, the combination of a hopper having a valley therein and inclines at the end of the valle a chain movable through the valley, and uckets on the chain to carry potatoes out of the valley. I

7. In a potato-feeding mechanism for planters, the combination of an inclined hopper having a valley therein and inclines at the up er end of the valley, a chain movable through the valley, buckets at intervals on the chain, deflector-blocks on the chain between the buckets, and a tube into which the buckets deposit their contents.

in a potato-feeding mechanism, the combination of an inclined hopper ha ing a valley therein, inclines at the upper end of the valley, a music at thelower end of the valley, an endlc a chain passing through the valiey, bu ket; the chain, deflectonbloeks between i312 t-,i1lti5 tor i the chain and n ightening the chain.

In testimony ia'i'ilfiiibf i lHlY: wggned this specification in the presence of t'k t'ifi siioscrilv ing witnesses.

- IRA JAMES KAAR.

Witnesses:

A. W. EABTERDAY, G. E. HAGna. 

